General Wrestling Thread

ColinBellsjockstrap said:
None of this American rubbish:-

The best wrestling was on Saturday afternoon with Kent Walton commentating.

Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Jackie (Mr TV) Pallo, Les Kellet, John Lees, Mal Kirk (The Yorkshire Miner) Count Bartelli (From Crewe) Jim Breaks, Rollerball Rocco, Jim Hussy, Alan Kilby, Mike(flash)Jordon from Gorton, Kendo Nagasaki, Johnny Saint, Adrian Street, Leon Arras (aka actor Brian Glover). etc.
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Ahhhh the memories,Easy,easy,easy...
 
BJL_City said:
Just think funhouse Bray is much more interesting, and the finish of the match was just farcical, and his mandible claw sucks.
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Disagree. I think both personalities have their place and are both done really well.

My *only* criticism of the whole thing is that he's become champ too quickly IMHO, I think he should have decimated the mid-card for a while, then stepped up into some bigger feuds, before going for a title run.

As it stands, he's been built up strong, so he's going to have to keep the title or face looking weak.

Still think the fiend is the best thing in the company by an absolute mile at the moment.
 
Attitude Era fans, fans of Undertaker, general fans of wrestling, make sure you watch Stone Cold's Broken Skull Sessions with Mark Calaway. Great stuff
 
Watched it last night, thought it was good, not really sure how I feel about Taker breaking character on the Network but I did enjoy the Untold about his match with HBK at Bad Blood 1997 too.

Couldn't see anyone talking about it after a quick skim through the last few pages but did anyone watch those Viceland: Dark Side Of The Ring documentaries? Best docs I've seen about wrestling in ages, especially the Von Erich and Gino Hernandez ones.
 
liamctid said:
Watched it last night, thought it was good, not really sure how I feel about Taker breaking character on the Network but I did enjoy the Untold about his match with HBK at Bad Blood 1997 too.
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Kayfabe is long dead, everyone knows he's not actually dead, and as long as he's not like the new breed who have feuds on tv, then post themselves and their enemies on social media enjoying a spa day, he retains some mystique, IMHO.

He'll always, always, be the GOAT, and I gope when he does hang up the trenchcoat for good, we get a book full of his stories.
 
I by no means am an avid wrasslin consumer, but I do like the look of this Orange Cassidy kid. Actually has an alright gimmick.
 
We used to get Tyson Austin , mankind hell n a cell/ street fight matches, title changes, undertaker/Kane segments.... now it’s Lana/Bobby Lashley segments, 5 jobber matches, Charlotte, AOP talking albainian n 6 man tag main events 90s v now a miss the 90s.... they could least give us Brie ☺️ only good thing on raw theese days is Charly Carusso
 
I'm watching the German game atm and they've just shown an ad for the upcoming WWE on BT Sport with Big E.

Dunno why but I marked lol.
 
Not a dig at Orange, but modern wrestling is so deprived of consistent character work (probably due to the lack of old school kayfabe) that anytime anyone shows up and plays a character well people get a bit too excited.

After mentioning I saw the BT advert yesterday, a relative showed me some recent clip (as something to look forward to) from NXT of the women's champ berating a fan like it was the best heel work of the century. I mean it was good work and she did well but that's what was par for course in the territorial days. The bar's real low on that front.
 
BJL_City said:
watched 55 seconds and I already hate Orange Cassidy and can confirm Jim Cornette is completely right as usual.

Dreadful parodical shite.
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The people who I know who are into wrestling absolutely hate him and think he's so past it. Which is kind of emblematic of the issues of today's characterless, suspension of disbelief destroying wrestlers.

When I was still into it I used to listen to his podcasts. I'm glad to know I'm not his only fan.
 
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